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• Whenever you hear the word Chess, the name "VISWANATHAN ANAND" will flash in your mind.

•  Anand has been the undisputed world chess champion since 2007 and has proved his class over the years against the experienced as well as the young promising opponents.

• On Friday, the Indian Grandmaster was finally dethroned by Norway’s 22 year old, Magnus Carlsen.

• Carlsen dominated this world championship throughout and played to his strengths while Anand was forced to play to his weakness.

• Carlsen picked up a draw on Friday thus making a tally of the required 6.5 points over Anand’s 3.5. He won the game 5, game 6 and game 9.

• Anand needed three wins in a row and was going for the kill in game 10 but Carlsen showed his master class and held the game to a draw.

• Carlsen is now the second youngest Chess Champion, just 5 months elder to the youngest Chess Champion Garry Kasparov who won in 1985.

• Anand’s world championship might have been gone but nevertheless Anand has been the best Grandmaster India has ever produced.

• Anand started to play chess right from the age of 5 and has single handedly propelled India to the top of the chess world.

• In 1984, he became the youngest Indian to win world junior chess championship at the age of 14 and showed the world that Indians can play Chess.

• At just 18, he became India’s first Grandmaster and was awarded Padma Shri.

• He has won Chess Oscar (given to the best player of the year worldwide) six times – 1997,1998,2003,2004,2007 and 2008.

• He won the world chess championship five times – 2000,2007,2008,2010,2012.

• He even became one of the six ever to break the 2800 mark on the FIDE rating list.

• He was awarded Khel ratna in 1991 and voices have been raised for conferring him with Bharat Ratna.

• He is a legend and will always be remembered as the "Sachin Tendulkar" of Indian chess. Such was his dominance.

• His carrer is not only an inspiration for Indian Chess but also taught how to chase a dream and achieve it.

•  Virat Kohli scored a match winning 86 yesterday against the Carribeans and in the process crossed the 5000 run landmark with a massive six.

• He is now the joint-fastest batsmen to reach 5000 run mark along with Sir Vivian Richards.

• Both Kohli and Richards played 114 innings although the West Indian Legend featured in 126 matches, six more than Kohli.

• During this record, he also surpassed Sourav Ganguly’s record of fastest 5000 by an Indian (126 innings).

• He could have surpassed Sir Vivian Richards’s record in his previous match itself but was unfortunately run out without troubling the scorers.

• He also holds the record for most ODI hundreds scored with 5000 runs or less.

• Kohli now tops the ICC ranking for ODI batsmen with 857 rating points, 8 points ahead of AB de Villiers.

• He has established himself in all the formats especially in the shorter formats of the game.

• He has shown the world that he is capable of scoring either a blitzkrieg innings or an anchoring innings.

• He is averaging 68.98 in winning cause in ODIs and 65.54 while chasing, which is the highest in ODIs.

• He has got that aggressive attitude, determination and appetite for runs, which has kept him going.

• Though he has a lot of haters because of his arrogant attitude, he has kept them silenced with his performances.

• He is just 25 and has already scored 17 centuries.

• If anybody could surpass Sachin’s record of most centuries in ODIs, then it could well be this young sensation.

• He along with Rohit Sharma has formed the backbone of Team India.

• Certainly, the future of Indian batting is in the
  
  safe hands.

• India today has successfully launched its first mission to Mars "Mangalyaan", a Rs 450 crore mission.

• Mangalyaan means "Mars craft" in Hindi.

• It is the size of a small car and is meant to make a 300-day journey to study the Martian atmosphere.

• It has been in the making for 15 months started at once after China's Mars missile failed in 2011.

• Over 500 scientists worked with sleepless nights.

• The launch has put India in the group of four countries that includes America, Russia and Europe.

• The mission is aimed at establishing the country's capability to reach the Red Planet.

• And focussing on looking for the presence of methane, an indicator of life, in Mars.

• It was launched at 2.38 pm, entering orbit around Earth 44 minutes after blast-off.

• It will reach Mars orbit by September 2014.

• This mission will undoubtedly make India,  a nation to be reckoned with space research and exploration.

• This mission is comparatively cheap yet critics have questioned whether a country with poverty like ours can afford to spend this huge amount in Mangalyaan.

• On the other hand, optimists say that this mission will in turn reflect in the development of economy of the country and could possibly reduce poverty.

Having a Facebook account has become a necessity once you
turn 15+.

How it starts :

It all starts with scrolling through your boring newsfeed and sending friend
requests.

But once you are all set, your life becomes Facebook-centred, which sets
me wondering why it has become such an integral part
of our lives

Our Facebook persona has become our primary concern
and we fail to realise we have a beautiful life beyond the
digital screen.

We pose for photos even better than models to gain a respectable
number of “likes”, we beat our brains for a fitting caption to
define our profile picture, we go to restaurants and cool
places only to update status or “check in” from that place.


Life without facebook :

Each and every moment of our life revolves around Facebook.

Let us rewind to our Facebook-less lives for a
moment.

We will realise that a select choice of candid photos recalls the choicest and genuine moments of our lives.

Calling on a friend on his/her birthday strengthens the bond of friendship better than posting a birthday wish on their walls.

We were happy in whatever small world we were in and we will discover this genuine and classic way of life can never be paralleled.

Despite having the chance to have contact with our old friends and distance mates, it is still way far inferior to our Fb-less lives.

Fb helps to gain loads of knowledge and the currents updates, yet not many people are using this social networking site for that very purpose.

People love to add new friends to their long list. but what they failed to realise is that, "Books and friends should be few and good." 

Well, the debatable topic is whether FACEBOOK IS A BOON OR A BANE.

It totally depends on how people use it yet on the whole, I need to admit that it is certainly revolutionising our way of living.

What's ur say mates.....? 

Now-a-days, the second best friend to a internet user after Google is definitely WIKIPEDIA. If one needs the trace out something, there comes Wikipedia.

                                       Mumbai have 20 points in their kitty. Mumbai too are on a high since Rohit Sharma has lead the side winning all the games as captain. Would love to see them through as well.

• Royal Challengers Bangalore :

                                      They are on 16 points and need to win both their matches against CSK and KXI. Their advantage is that both the games are on their home turf but they are too dependent on Gayle and AB.. As a RCB fan. needa keep my fingers crossed.

• Sunrisers Hyderabad :

                                       The new addition to IPL is working really hard to make their way into the next stage with a strong bowling attack. They need to win both their matches to go through.


And for now, PWI, DD have been knocked out and the defending champs KKR and KXI have a mathematical chance of going through.

Yes, Kiss is the formula of Twitter.
It is Keep It Short and Simple.


Twitter is one of the most popular social networking site used today after FB.

The definition of twitter is “a short burst of inconsequential information” and “a series of chirps from birds”.

Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and by July, the social networking site was launched.

Along with him, Evan Williams and Biz stone also worked in this site and they never knew how popular this would become.

When they first created the site, they were just looking for a way to send text messages on their cell phones and a way to reinvent a somewhat dying company.

The first tweet was “just setting up my twttr” by Jack [@Jack].


Today Twitter has over 200 million users with about 460,000 new accounts being created each day. There are more than 140 million tweets sent each day.

 It allows users to send only 140 characters called a tweet and it is termed as the best micro blogging site.

It is mainly popular among the celebrities and big icons because twitter allows them to have a pretty good interaction with their fan base and also communicate to them whatever they wish to.

In June 2008, Twitter launched a verification program, allowing celebrities to get their accounts verified.
 
Its exclusive brand caption is "What's happening?"

Though the twitter logo may look like a dove, it was addressed as the Mountain Bluebird.
 

It has four tabs, default tab is the tweets feed which contains all tweets from users whom you follow along with yours.

The second tab is for interactions and mentions. It is similiar to the notification in FB.

The third tab is Hashing that allows you to find the most trending topic in twitter and also people whom to follow and whom you may know.

The Final Tab is your profile which allows you to view your tweets, view direct messages and requests from the followers.

In October 2012, Twitter announced it had hired Google executive Matt Derella to become their new director of business agency development.

Today is the day, when Sourav Ganguly played his final match of his career. Yes, its May 5th.




Who is that guy ?
Who can make Steve waugh
wait for 10 mins for the toss..

Who is that guy ?
Who can remove his jercy in
ecstacy in lords in front of
English crowd...

Who is that guy ?
Who can go to umpire and
force him to give for third
umpire decision when he feels
decision is wrong...

Who is that guy ?
Who can warn a batsman not
to run down the pitch when
even umpires forgot to warn...

Who is that guy ?
Who can bravely say to a
coach that he is being partial...

Who is that guy ?
Who roared back to prove
himself when everyone said
his career has ended...

Who is that guy ?
Who argues and fights to get a
player in the squad...

Who is that guy ?
Who showed that even India
can win overseas matches...

Who is that guy ?
Who stepped forward when
legends like Sachin himself
stepped back to take
captaincy ...

Can we see any other guy who is
such gutsy aggressive and
daring with bravery... And all
this with a smile on his face...



Sourav Ganguly became Indian
captain when the Indian team
was in black time, and he brought
India from 8th to 2nd rank in
ICC Test Rankings.

He was the 1st foreigner to
score a Test debut 100 at Lords.

He scored 16 test centuries and India haven't lost any match.

He won 4 consecutive man of the match awards in ODI,
which is a record and have won 31 man of the match
awards (3rd in the list) in ODI.

He has got the record of
maximum 6's in World Cup and
highest individual score of an
Indian in World Cup.

He is 4th in the no. of ODI 6s. He involved in the 1st 300
partnership in ODI which is still
the best in World Cup.

He gets claps by the fight
against the opposition team in
the ground and fights against team management and
others outside the field.

¤The warrior won't pick up his bat again¤